Simplitech
Simplitech
Providing an affordable alternative to traditional fiscal devices, Simplitech's online platform enables Tanzanian SMEs to issue virtual receipts, access cloud accounting, and reduce costs, improving tax compliance and business efficiency.
Starting date: 14 August 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Cliniva Healthcare
Cliniva Healthcare
Cliniva Healthcare provides affordable, personalized women's healthcare in Kenya through a hybrid model of neighborhood mini-clinics and telemedicine, offering continuous follow-up and reducing wait times with a nurse-led approach.
Starting date: 10 July 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
FlexPay
FlexPay
FlexPay is a merchant-embedded digital platform that follows a 'Save Now Buy Later' model: users can save money for future purchases, earn rewards, and pay over time, encouraging financial responsibility and continued credit-free consumption of essential goods and services.
Starting date: 11 April 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
GOBEBA
GOBEBA
GOBEBA has developed a holistic approach that ensures a safe, efficient, high-quality and low-threshold distribution of bulky utilities (such as cooking energy and water), benefiting consumers as well as brands. Consumers can use messenger services or an app to order the quantity of goods they need, which are then delivered by a driver from a nearby micro-fulfilment hub.
Starting date: 16 February 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Tappi
Tappi
Tappi provides MSMEs with an easy-to-use Software as a Service (SaaS) application to build a reputable online identity. By answering 8 questions on WhatsApp, investing 2 minutes and using their mobile airtime, businesses can build their own website, get reviews and grow their customer base.
Starting date: 08 February 2024
Commitment: EUR 200,000
Malaica Science
Malaica Science
Malaica has launched an online pregnancy programme that matches midwives with pregnant women and provides a platform to deliver proactive midwifery care at scale, in line with WHO guidelines and best practice, creating jobs for midwives, giving pregnant women access to the care they need and, most importantly, helping to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality.
Starting date: 08 February 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
E-Prod Solutions
E-Prod Solutions
eProd has developed an affordable, off-the-shelf digital agricultural supply chain management platform that enables agribusinesses to manage the registration and payment of supplying smallholder farmers. In addition, the platform integrates financial service providers to offer payment or credit cycle management services to smallholder farmers. Important additional features include product traceability from seed to field to final product, which is becoming increasingly important, especially in international markets.
Starting date: 17 January 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Melanin Kapital
Melanin Kapital
Melanin Kapital is a climate fintech platform that aims to provide affordable and efficient financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) looking to invest in green productive assets. The company offers its main product, Kijani Credit, which enables SMEs to access green asset financing by leveraging carbon credits, AI-powered processes, and blockchain wallets. Additionally, Melanin Kapital provides an API product to financial institutions, helping them reduce climate risk and decarbonize their portfolios.
Starting date: 25 August 2023
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Drop Access
Drop Access
Drop Access is a female-led company and is the first to manufacture a portable solar-powered cool box for the delivery of vaccines and medical supplies in rural areas in Africa. The "Vaccine Box" is a real innovation that uses technology IoT integration in terms of remote data collection and monitoring capability, data on temperature, location, battery voltage, stock, and fridge operations can be accessed from anywhere in the world in real time.
Starting date: 31 January 2023
10Agrow Technologies
10Agrow Technologies
10Agrow is a digital platform that aims to strengthen the purchasing power of vulnerable groups (e.g. women, low-income households and micro businesses) by forming smart consumer groups. By merger, they can leverage their collective purchasing power and negotiate premium prices (20% below market rate) for essential products.
Starting date: 10 July 2022
End date: 31 May 2023
Commitment: EUR 200,000
Mazi
Mazi
Mazi provides on-demand clean energy mobility services. This includes electric motorcycles (for sale) paired with battery swapping infrastructure (Battery as a Service). Moreover, the startup owns and rents batteries to commercial motorcycle riders (“boda bodas”) and businesses on a per-use fee. By developing an ecosystem of connected e-bikes, batteries and swapping stations, the company is providing a realistic, greener and cheaper alternative to high pollutive and expensive petrol bikes.
Starting date: 23 December 2022
End date: 30 April 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Simusolar
Simusolar
Simusolar provides technical and digital solutions to equip smallholder farmers with solar water pump systems. The irrigation pumps work on a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) system and have an integrated data collection for customer usage analysis. With a mobile sales app the sales team designs customised irrigation solutions for farmers.
Starting date: 02 December 2022
End date: 30 April 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Dial A Pad
Dial A Pad
Dial A Pad manufactures smart IoT enabled sanitary towel dispensers and places them into schools,workplaces and public places to combat period poverty in Kenya, Dial A Pad’s solutions overcome the issue of last-mile delivery and thus provides an effective, accountable, and transparent distribution system for the governmental free sanitary towels Program. Schools and county governments can use the collected data to monitor early marriages and teenage pregnancies and intervene accordingly.
Starting date: 09 June 2023
End date: 01 May 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Agribora
Agribora Kenya
Agribora's main goal is to empower smallholder farmers to engage in agribusiness by giving them access to finance. Agribora provides its customers with an e-wallet where they can create their own accounts and receive earmarked loans based on their transaction history, which is intended to derisk smallholder farming systems and improve farm productivity.
Starting date: 14 July 2022
End date: 31 May 2024
Commitment: EUR 200,000
Pezesha Africa
Pezesha Africa
Through an embedded marketplace, Pezesha Africa connects fundless MSMEs with distribution partners and institutional investors to provide access to affordable working capital loans. Based on real-time credit scoring, the company offers different lending options. The company helps to close the gap in MSME financing, allowing emerging sectors and markets to develop.
Starting date: 28 February 2022
End date: 31 May 2024
Commitment: EUR 200,000
Shamba Pride
Shamba Pride
Through its DigiShop franchise network, Shamba Pride provides services to smallholder farmers. Shamba Pride enables last-mile agro-dealers and cooperative entrepreneurs to digitally connect with smallholder farmers and provide them with agriculture inputs, information, and services. Farmers are able to increase their farm productivity and sustain their employment and household income.
Starting date: 17 February 2022
End date: 31 May 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Yusudi
Yusudi
Founded in 2016, Yusudi provides customized training, coaching and placement services to young talent through its training academy. Yusudi has become a key player not only in qualifying graduates for employment in sales, but also in placing them in the labor market in a timely manner. In this way, it creates a virtuous cycle of talent and business growth and an improvement in income levels.
Starting date: 01 March 2023
End date: 30 June 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Play Zuri Health
Play Zuri Health
Zuri Health is a health app (virtual hospital) providing affordable and accessible healthcare services (chat with doctors, buy medication from pharmacies, book diagnostic tests and doctors visits at home) via mobile app, website, Whatsapp bot and SMS service. Zuri Health is reaching over 1,5 Million SMS subscribers across 7 African countries.
Starting date: 18 July 2022
End date: 30 June 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Inclusivity Solutions
Inclusivity Solutions
Inclusivity Solutions is an African-based insurtech company offering digital insurance products and services. Putting the emerging consumer at the centre of their business, Inclusivity seeks to co-create risk protection products that are simple, affordable and accessible to market participants that have largely been excluded from traditional insurance distribution.
Starting date: 06 December 2019
End date: 30 June 2024
Commitment: EUR 200,000
Kiri EV
Kiri EV
The company's core business focuses on the sale and leasing of e-motorcycles. In addition Kiri EV offers ancillary services such as PAYGO battery charging. By providing cheaper and environmentally friendly fuel to drivers, Kiri contributes to the green transition of domestic transport.
Starting date: 07 July 2022
End date: 31 August 2024
